If the UK Election had taken place under the List System

One of the electoral systems that is currently used in the UK for European Parliament Elections, London Assembly, Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament elections is currently being ignored in the talk about a new electoral system for the UK. So I did a little experiment with the Election Calculus Simulator. I used the different nations of the UK as the basis of the constituencies. (For purpose of these I ignored the votes for others, all vote figures were taken from the BBC website)

So lets take a look at the results.

England (533 Seats)

List System:

Conservatives (40.0%):215

Labour (28.4%):152

Lib Dem (24.5%):131

UKIP (3.5%):18

BNP (2.1%):11

Green (1.0%): 5

English Democrats (0.3%):1

Actual results:

Conservatives: 297

Labour: 191

Liberal Democrats: 43

Green: 1

Scotland (59 Seats)

List System:

Labour (42.2%): 26

SNP (20.0%): 12

Lib Dem (19.0%): 11

Conservative (16.8%): 10

Actual Result:

Labour: 41

Lib Dem: 11

SNP: 6

Conservatives: 1

Wales (40 Seats)

List System:

Labour (36.9%): 16

Conservatives (26.5%): 11

Liberal Dems (20.5%): 8

Plaid Cymru (11.5%): 4

UKIP (2.5%): 1

Actual Result:

Labour: 26

Conservative: 8

Lib Dem: 3

Plaid Cymru: 3

Northern Ireland (18 seats)

List System:

SF (27.5%): 6

DUP (26.9%): 5

SDLP (17.7%): 3

UUP (16.3%): 3

Alliance (6.8%): 1

Actual Result:

DUP: 8

SF :5

SDLP: 3

Alliance 1

Others: 1

This would have translated to a parliament made of the following:

Conservatives: 236

Labour: 194

Liberal Democrats: 150

UKIP: 19

SNP: 12

BNP: 11

SF: 6

Greens: 5

DUP: 5

Plaid: 4

SDLP: 3

UUP: 3

Alliance: 1

English Democrats: 1

Now that would be an interesting Parliament!

I doubt that the List sytem would be used for the House of Commons, but it could be a possibility for the House of Lords. That makes it all the more interesting!